A thunderbird security update has been released for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1.
RHSA-2021:2882-01: Important: thunderbird security update
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Red Hat Security Advisory
Synopsis: Important: thunderbird security update
Advisory ID: RHSA-2021:2882-01
Product: Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Advisory URL: https://access.redhat.com/errata/RHSA-2021:2882
Issue date: 2021-07-26
CVE Names: CVE-2021-29969 CVE-2021-29970 CVE-2021-29976
CVE-2021-30547
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1. Summary:
An update for thunderbird is now available for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8.1
Extended Update Support.
Red Hat Product Security has rated this update as having a security impact
of Important. A Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) base score,
which gives a detailed severity rating, is available for each vulnerability
from the CVE link(s) in the References section.
2. Relevant releases/architectures:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1) - ppc64le, x86_64
3. Description:
Mozilla Thunderbird is a standalone mail and newsgroup client.
This update upgrades Thunderbird to version 78.12.0.
Security Fix(es):
* Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be
processed (CVE-2021-29969)
* Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document
(CVE-2021-29970)
* Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12
(CVE-2021-29976)
* chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE (CVE-2021-30547)
For more details about the security issue(s), including the impact, a CVSS
score, acknowledgments, and other related information, refer to the CVE
page(s) listed in the References section.
4. Solution:
For details on how to apply this update, which includes the changes
described in this advisory, refer to:
https://access.redhat.com/articles/11258
All running instances of Thunderbird must be restarted for the update to
take effect.
5. Bugs fixed ( https://bugzilla.redhat.com/):
1970109 - CVE-2021-30547 chromium-browser: Out of bounds write in ANGLE
1982013 - CVE-2021-29970 Mozilla: Use-after-free in accessibility features of a document
1982014 - CVE-2021-29976 Mozilla: Memory safety bugs fixed in Firefox 90 and Firefox ESR 78.12
1982015 - CVE-2021-29969 Mozilla: IMAP server responses sent by a MITM prior to STARTTLS could be processed
6. Package List:
Red Hat Enterprise Linux AppStream EUS (v. 8.1):
Source:
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_1.src.rpm
ppc64le:
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_1.ppc64le.rpm
x86_64:
thunderbird-78.12.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debuginfo-78.12.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
thunderbird-debugsource-78.12.0-2.el8_1.x86_64.rpm
These packages are GPG signed by Red Hat for security. Our key and
details on how to verify the signature are available from
https://access.redhat.com/security/team/key/
7. References:
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29969
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29970
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-29976
https://access.redhat.com/security/cve/CVE-2021-30547
https://access.redhat.com/security/updates/classification/#important
8. Contact:
The Red Hat security contact is . More contact
details at https://access.redhat.com/security/team/contact/
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